Ground Reference Maneuvers

In this 5-minute in-flight video, San Diego CFI Garry Wing, of Fly The Wing Flight Training, demonstrates the fundamentals of Ground Reference manuvers, using S-Turns across a road as the example. For more learn-to-fly videos, please visit KZbin channel 'garrywing' or visit the website, FlyTheWing.com

[@12evi]

Great video Garry thanks a lot for your hep!!!

[@Bambichka2014]

Great video! thank you very much!

[@mypersonalphotosite]

Excellent videos!!!

[@user-dl8fs7iq9u]

Great,Thank you

[@gerryortiz7276]

Did Sturns over the 8 yesterday in same area!

[@Bionicbunnywabbit]

No one's commented on this Garry? Surprised it doesn't have more views.

[@royrodgers0]

Plans the maneuver so as to enter a left or right pattern, 600 to 1,000 feet AGL at an appropriate distance from the selected reference area, 45° to the downwind leg.

[@GarryWing]

Well... you cut/pasted the PTS for *Rectangular Course*, and I was demonstrating *S-Turns* in the video; nothing about "left/right pattern, 45-degree downwind", etc. for S-Turns in the PTS... FAA's Airplane Flying Handbook says "rectangular course can be entered from any direction" (p. 6-5). No DPE is going to require you to fly a big 5-mile circuit just to get on the other side of your course so you can begin downwind. As long as you begin with a shallow bank (verbalize this), you can start upwind.

[@Bionicbunnywabbit]

+Roy R I truly hope youre not a pilot. There is nothing more dangerous in aviation than a guy who talks and doesn't know what hes talking about.

[@GarryWing]

+Zacharyt54 Ha:) Welcome to the Internet; where _anyone_ can be an expert...

[@paulcrooks3742]

I'm confused. I read that it's radius of turn that increase with speed

[@clayton4115]

that's correct so that is why you increase the rate of turn to not "over turn" when you have a tailwind

[@royrodgers0]

What altitude for ground reference maneuvers??? DPE would have failed you! :)

[@GarryWing]

You of course know that the Altimeter displays MSL, not AGL, right? Terrain near I-8 in Alpine is 1,500' MSL, so my altitude of 2,200' MSL is right within the 600-1,000' AGL PTS requirement.

[@MrSaxmachine13]

+Garry Wing why do you show that gps starting the maneuver at 2390' and you say you roll wings level at 2200'

[@GarryWing]

+Brad Norton You use the _altimeter_ for altitude indications in an airplane, not the _GPS_. I won't get into how the GPS calculates heights using an ellipsoid and USGS map elevations... but you can Google it... (Note at 3:42 the altimeter shows 2,200' and the GPS shows 2,580' *D'OH!*)